Archive | Virtual Server

Today Microsoft released the Release Candidate for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. Full speed ahead it seems at Microsoft. Microsoft is trying to narrow the gap with VMWare with the R2 release of Hyper-V Server, but they still have a long way to go. You can grab a Download Here. Here are the details […]

Recently in our groovy Community Forum, goLfie (one of our groovy readers) asked a Question about Computer Component Advice. Over time the discussion turned to questions about building a Virtual Server. As I was typing my response to the thread, I figured this topic was worth a front-pager so without further ado… Server Case […]

So, you’ve successfully migrated a few Virtual Servers Guests to Windows Server 2008 running Hyper-V, but now you want to manage the Hyper-V Server remotely from another Windows Server 2008 or Vista box. Is it possible? Today at work I had that very question, and found that it is possible and easy to configure a […]

So, you’ve successfully migrated a few Virtual Servers Guests to Windows Server 2008 running Hyper-V, but now you want to manage the Hyper-V Server remotely from another Windows Server 2008 or Vista box. Is it possible? Today at work I had that very question, and I found it is possible and easy to configure a […]

One nice thing about Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 is that if you’re running old Virtual Machine Additions on your Guest VMs, the Admin console will throw an alert to let you know <See shot below>. This notice is handy, being that you always want to be running the latest VM additions on your Virtual […]

On Thursday (May 15th, 2008) I was pleasantly surprised to find that Microsoft released a new update for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 which adds support for Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 Virtual Machines. Microsoft also released Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 for the same reason. Being that I […]

Recently I converted / imported a Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 Virtual Machine from my Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 environment to my new Microsoft Windows Server 2008 box running the new Hyper-V Virtual Server technology. The upgrade was a bit easier than I expected BUT, I did run into a few surprises along the […]